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Smallpox Eradication, Laboratory Visits, and a Touch of Tourism: Travel Notes of a Canadian Scientist in Brazil (2010)

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Disease and diseases Vaccines; vaccination Public health Smallpox Epidemics Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence 20th century Brazil Canada World Health Organization (WHO)

The paper presents and discusses the travel notes diary of Canadian scientist Robert J. Wilson when he visited Brazil in April 1967 during the Smallpox Eradication Programme run by the World Health Organisation. Wilson's report makes it possible to reflect on the smallpox eradication campaign in Brazil; on the Canada-Brazil cooperation to improve the quality of the smallpox vaccine; on his assessment by of scientists and Brazilian laboratories; on the effects of intersections between scientific activity and social and cultural activities; on the role played by specialist communities of experts role in international scientific cooperation projects; and on a Canadian traveller's concepts and prejudices about Brazil at the end of the 1960s.

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Authors & Contributors
Hochman, Gilberto
Sarah Rafferty
Gonzalez, Stephanie
Altink, Henrice
Willrich, Michael
Walloch, Karen L.
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Medical History
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal of Historical Geography
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Publishers
University of Wisconsin at Madison
University of California, Davis
Penguin
Ohio University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
New York, City University of
Concepts
Public health
Vaccines; vaccination
Disease and diseases
Smallpox
Epidemics
Medicine
People
McNamara, Robert Strange
Salk, Jonas Edward
Foege, William H.
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Places
Brazil
Japan
Canada
Caribbean
Africa
Bangladesh
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
UNICEF
European Association against Poliomyelitis
World Bank
United Nations
Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)
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